My favourite comments so far:
The Iranian-paid liar who wrote this total garbage has the gall to call Moqtada Sadr's Mahdi Army "Iran-backed."
And...
This guy must be Tony Blair in disguise.
News
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Cleric Condones Corruption
My latest post on British Iraqi Forum.
Can we reconcile jurisprudence with ethics? Do they run parallel to each other or do they sometimes clash? When there is a contradiction, which has to give way to the other?
Friday, August 20, 2010
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Ali al-Wardi: Volume 1
My abridged translation of the first volume of Social Glimpses has now been published. I have already started with the second volume (Iraq between 1831 and 1872) and I hope to finish as much of it as possible during the summer.
Friday, August 13, 2010
What South Africa could teach Iraq
My article in today's Iraq section in the Guardian.
The article has only been up for a few hours but from first impressions non-Iraqis seem to be dismissing it as nonsense and not even worth a try but Iraqis seem to be more enthusiastic and believe it makes sense. I am happy because at least its not the other way around.
Unfortunately many non-Iraqis still believe Biden's idea, of splitting up the country, is the number one solution for Iraq. No number of Iraqis screaming at them telling them it is an absurd idea will be enough for them. Cue the lame argument: Iraqis are monsters, they don't know whats best for them, and they need to live in human cages.
Hopefully time will prove them wrong.
Update 15/8/2010:
The article has since been translated in Arabic and published in two independent Iraqi newspapers, Al-Aalem and Al-Mowaten.
The article has only been up for a few hours but from first impressions non-Iraqis seem to be dismissing it as nonsense and not even worth a try but Iraqis seem to be more enthusiastic and believe it makes sense. I am happy because at least its not the other way around.
Unfortunately many non-Iraqis still believe Biden's idea, of splitting up the country, is the number one solution for Iraq. No number of Iraqis screaming at them telling them it is an absurd idea will be enough for them. Cue the lame argument: Iraqis are monsters, they don't know whats best for them, and they need to live in human cages.
Hopefully time will prove them wrong.
Update 15/8/2010:
The article has since been translated in Arabic and published in two independent Iraqi newspapers, Al-Aalem and Al-Mowaten.
Monday, August 02, 2010
Iraqism
Outside law, being Iraqi, in my opinion, has nothing to do with citizenship. A few years ago I met Ayatollah Sistani at his home in Najaf and asked him a very simple question, “how are you?” and he replied immediately in a dreary tone, “look at Iraq, that is how I am.” I then asked regardless of the situation in Iraq, how he was feeling and he calmly showed both his palms and said, “I cannot separate between Iraq’s health and my health” [More...]
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